Judgment of the General Court of 5 March 2015 — Rose Vision and Seseña v Commission
(Case T-45/13) 1
(Arbitration clause — Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007-2013) — Grant agreements relating to the FIRST, FutureNEM and sISI projects — Actions for annulment and compensation — Reclassification of the actions– Admissibility — Suspension of payments — Deadline for providing the audit report — Dissemination of information to third parties)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Rose Vision, SL (Seseña, Spain); and Julián Seseña (Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain) (represented by: M. Muñiz Bernuy and A. Alonso Villa, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lyal and A. Sauka, acting as Agents, assisted by J. Rivas Andrés and X. M. García García, lawyers)
Re:
First, action for annulment of the Commission’s letter by which it suspended the payments under grant agreement No 246910, relating to the FutureNEM project, and of financial audit report 11-INFS-025, on the basis of which it adopted that measure, and, secondly, action for damages for the harm allegedly suffered by the applicants as a consequence of the Commission’s conduct, up to a maximum of EUR 5 854 264, without prejudice to the damages which may be assessed in the course of the present proceedings as well as interest accrued.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Rose Vision, SL and Mr Julián Seseña to pay the costs.
________________________1 OJ C 178, 22.6.2013.